[Anthropometric evaluation of nutritional status in children. Procedures, standardization and significance].
A major concern for pediatrician is evaluate the infant nutritional status for clinical, epidemiological and research purposes. This paper describes different anthropometric procedures such as weight, length or height, as well as head and arm circumferences and skinfolds; give some relevant hints in order to prevent subjects, instruments and operator errors. Standardization methods are discussed and cut point to accept consistency and validity between operators are suggested. It's also discussed how to manage the raw data in order to evaluate nutritional status in terms of size, growth tendency or weight/age, length/age and weight/length indices; besides, the most important classification of the nutritional status are given. Finally, the procedures for calculating muscular and fat arm areas and corporal adiposity in order to obtain body composition are presented.
Flores-Huerta
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División de Crecimiento y Desarrollo, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, México, D.F.
Villalpando
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Fajardo-Gutiérrez
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D000886:Anthropometry; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D009752:Nutritional Status; D012016:Reference Values; D013223:Statistics as Topic
Evaluación antropométrica del estado de nutrición de los niños. Procedimientos, estandarización y significado.